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How much compensation for a delayed JetBlue Airways flight?

£520 each, if you land 3 hours or more late

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JetBlue Airways is about average for the 80 airlines flying at UK airports for 3-hour delays.

Flights a year
3,210
Landed on time
81.6%
Land 3 hrs or more late
16a year

Last 12 months, CAA data

What you're owed

Every JetBlue Airways route we hold a distance for falls in the same band, so that is the figure. About 16 JetBlue Airways flights a year cross that line.

What it pays

Pick the airport you flew from

JetBlue Airways flies from 3 UK airports, so there is no single distance and no single figure. Open the one you flew from and every destination is priced.

From
Heathrow 2,160 flights a year £520each
Edinburgh 738 flights a year £520each
Gatwick 312 flights a year £520each

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How bad is it

Does JetBlue Airways get delayed a lot?

Not especially. It's about average for the 80 airlines flying at UK airports, with about 1 flight in 200 landing 3 or more hours late (0.5%).

That works out at about 16 flights a year crossing the 3-hour line, which is the point the airline has to pay.

When is it worst?

August 2025, when JetBlue Airways flights ran an average of 14.1 minutes late.

See all the numbers for JetBlue Airways

In the last 12 months, JetBlue Airways operated 3,210 flights at UK airports, and 0.5% were 3 or more hours late, the threshold where £520 each becomes payable.

Flights are landing on time less often than last year: 81.6% ran on time against 85.3% in the twelve months before, and the average delay rose from 9.7 to 10.6 minutes.

JetBlue Airways, last 12 months
JetBlue Airways, last 12 months Figure vs year before
Flights at UK airports 3,210 was 3,031
Ran on time (within 15 min) 81.6% ▼ was 85.3%
Average delay 10.6 min ▲ was 9.7 min
3 hours or more late (the line where they pay) 0.5% -
Cancelled 1.2% -
Flights 3 hours or more late (a year) 16 flights/year -

The CAA's figures combine arrivals and departures, so this covers both directions of travel.

JetBlue Airways' delays, month by month

12.3m
14.1m
10.8m
12m
8.9m
11.8m
6.8m
11.7m
6.3m
9.9m
11.4m
7.8m
JulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

Worst month: August 2025, averaging 14.1 minutes.

Where it flies

JetBlue Airways at each UK airport

Airport 3 hours or more late Landed on time
Heathrow 0.5%
83.4%
Edinburgh 0.5%
76.2%
Gatwick 0.6%
82.2%

How to claim

Claiming from JetBlue Airways

Airlines rarely pay compensation on their own. Nothing happens until someone claims, and plenty of first claims come back refused when the airline blames something outside its control.

The rules do not change with the airline. What decides your claim is where the flight took off and how late it landed, not whose aircraft it was.

Your rights

What the rules turn on

Where the flight departed decides everything, not the airline's nationality. Anything leaving a UK airport is covered by UK261 whoever operates it, and anything leaving the EU by EU261. A delay of 3 or more hours on arrival pays £520 each on the distances JetBlue Airways flies, when the cause was within the airline's control, which covers technical faults, crew shortages and the knock-on from a late inbound aircraft. It pays nothing when the cause was genuinely extraordinary, though airlines stretch that word further than the case law supports, so a refusal on those grounds is worth testing rather than accepting.

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Source: UK Civil Aviation Authority punctuality statistics, July 2025 to June 2026. Analysis by CheckFlightCompensation; the CAA is credited as the data source as its publication conditions require. Figures cover the 25 largest UK airports. Methodology and limitations.